Tika Utsav today: India aims to vaccinate maximum people

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Tika Utsav today: India aims to vaccinate maximum people (Image: Pixabay)
Tika Utsav today: India aims to vaccinate maximum people (Image: Pixabay)

New Delhi : Tika Utsav will begin in India from today (April 11, 2021) with an aim to vaccinate maximum number of eligible people. 

During an interaction with the Chief Ministers of different states, PM Narendra Modi has asked them to celebrate Tika Utsav from April 11 to April 14 on the occasion of the birth anniversaries of Jyotiba Phule and Baba Saheb Ambedkar.

"We should vaccinate as many eligible people through a special campaign and decide on zero wastage. If there is zero wastage in four days during Tika Utsav, it will also increase our vaccination capacity," PM had said.

"We should make optimum utilization of vaccination capacity. And for this, if we have to increase the number of vaccination centres, we should do it. Let's see how we can mobilize things from April 11 to 14 and there will be satisfaction of achievement. It will greatly help in changing the situation. I have also told the Indian government to provide as many vaccine doses as possible. This should be our endeavour to vaccinate maximum eligible people during the 'Tika Utsav'," the Prime Minister had told the chief ministers.

Tika Utsav begins a day after PM Narendra Modi's office announced that India is the fastest country in the world to administer 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccines.

India, notably, achieved the feat in 85 days as compared to the United States (89 days) and China (102 days).